SACRELIGIOUS OUTRAGE.
A TRAGIC NEMESIS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 28. The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express states that a strange case of sacrilege, followed by a tragic nemesis, occurred at Waldshut on the Swiss-Ger-man frontier. Groups of young workmen employed at an electric factory pulled down a wooden statue of Christ from a cross on the roadway and replac ed it head downwards ainid blasphemous shouts. Two days later the ringleader fell into tne machinery at the factory head foremost and was killed. His com rades, panic-stricken, confessed to the sacrilege, and were arrested.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1921, Page 6
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96SACRELIGIOUS OUTRAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1921, Page 6
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